run by Germans

[alexcn]

I happened to encounter this phrase " run by Germans" that I don't understand in the episode 19 of season 1 Desperate Housewives when Lynette's quarrelling with Mrs.McCluskey, Mrs.McCluskey said :" Go to hell!" and Lynette replied:"Run by Germans!"

So, what's your opinions?

Thx in advance.....

 

[IDK]

They show that show in China!? Anyways, Lynette is "completing" (adding to) McCluskey's sentence as a way to return his statement.

Go to [the] hell...run by Germans.

 

[Brioche]

I happened to encounter this phrase " run by Germans" that I don't understand in the episode 19 of season 1 Desperate Housewives when Lynette's quarrelling with Mrs.McCluskey, Mrs.McCluskey said :" Go to hell!" and Lynette replied: "Run by Germans!"

So, what's your opinions?

Thx in advance.....

It is a reference to a joke about different nationalities.

Heaven Is Where:
The French are the chefs
The Italians are the lovers
The British are the police
The Germans are the mechanics
And the Swiss make everything run on time


Hell is Where:
The British are the chefs
The Swiss are the lovers
The French are the mechanics
The Italians make everything run on time
And the Germans are the police


Germans are stereotypically hard-working and methodical, so if they run hell, all the furnaces will be operating all the time at the optimum temperature, thus a really "hellish" hell.

 

[alexcn]

Thx a lot, Brioche.....such a vivid and interesting joke!